It turns out that thanks to a warning from Orion that appeared on the CMake list, I discovered the latest RC for cmake-2.8.6 (2.8.6-rc3) breaks the xwin device driver. See forwarded evidence below. So I will be monitoring the RC's for the cmake-2.8.6 release very closely in hopes that they will solve the issue before the cmake-2.8.6 release. Note if they don't solve that issue for the release my backup plan is to blacklist cmake-2.8.6, but I hope that will not be necessary.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:14:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> To: Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> Cc: CMake Mailing List <cm...@cmake.org> Subject: Re: [CMake] CMake 2.8.6-rc3 ready for testing! On 2011-09-20 13:01-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2011-09-20 11:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> I don't want to overly dilute what seems to be your really important >> message that there are serious build problems for cmake-2.8.6-rc3, but >> if nothing else, your post should galvanize lots of testing of >> cmake-2.8.6-rc3 which is a "good thing". When I did such build >> testing myself, the optimized build of PLplot appears to be OK for >> cmake-2.8.6-rc3 on at least my platform. > > P.S. I should have mentioned that the bug concerned FindThreads.cmake, > and the PLplot build system does use "find_package(Threads)" for the > xwin device driver. So I am a bit surprised I am not seeing the issue > for an optimized build that includes that device driver. P.P.S. Strike that. I found the issue at PLplot run-time, not build time for CMake-2.8.6-rc3 (probably because the PLplot library dynamically loads device drivers such as xwin). So I strongly second Orion's call for a fix before 2.8.6 is released. Here is the evidence: software@raven> examples/c/x01c -dev xwin PLplot library version: 5.9.8 examples/c/x01c: symbol lookup error: /home/software/plplot_svn/HEAD/build_dir/drivers/xwin.so: undefined symbol: pthread_mutexattr_init software@raven> ldd -r drivers/xwin.so |grep undefine undefined symbol: pthread_mutexattr_settype (drivers/xwin.so) undefined symbol: pthread_create (drivers/xwin.so) undefined symbol: pthread_mutexattr_init (drivers/xwin.so) undefined symbol: pthread_cancel (drivers/xwin.so) undefined symbol: pthread_join (drivers/xwin.so) Thanks, Orion, for catching this problem. Recently, I have become quite lazy about testing cmake RC's because normally they just work. But cmake-2.8.6-rc3 is definitely an exception to that rule and a general wakeup call for everyone to thoroughly test the CMake RC's both at build time _and_ run time. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
